DPM 2010 Beta is available now

The Data Protection Manager (DPM) team at Microsoft is announcing the arrival of Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta.

Anand Kamat the Group Product Manager for the DPM development team, and since shipping DPM 2007 SP1 in Jan 2009, quoted that it have been on an amazing journey to get this feature packed release out to all Microsoft customers.

This new definitely did cought my attention as i have have Hyper-V and SCVMM deployed on Windows Server 2008 R2 using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) cluster. DPM 2010 new features now support and protect CSV cluster.

"This has been one of the biggest investments that we made in DPM 2010, and we hope that you will absolutely love the features.  First and foremost, DPM 2010 Beta protects highly available virtual machines (VM) deployed on Windows Server 2008 R2 using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) clusters -- in addition to standalone Hyper-V servers and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clusters. For all above mentioned server configurations, DPM 2010 Beta supports:
Seamless protection of Live Migrating VMs (For Windows Server 2008 R2): DPM 2010 is LiveMigration aware and seamlessly protects a VM after it migrates to another node of the Hyper-V R2 cluster to another without manual intervention.
Item Level Recovery from host level backup: DPM 2010 Beta supports item level recovery (ILR) which allows you to do granular recovery of files and folders, volumes and virtual hard disks (VHD) from a host level backup of Hyper-V VMs to a network share or a volume on a DPM protected server.
Original Location Recovery: DPM 2010 Beta supports online recovery of the protected VM to the original location.
Alternate Host Recovery: DPM 2010 Beta supports alternate location recovery (ALR) which allows you to recover a Hyper-V VM to an alternate stand-alone or clustered Hyper-V host."

 For those out there who have CSV cluster deployed, or looking forward to deploy SCVMM, DPM 2010 may be one of your preferable solution.


Peoples also claim that DPM2010 are now able to protect non-domain and workgroup clients.